Unique drawings by Quentin Blake, one of Britain’s best-loved illustrators, are available at a Christie’s online auction which runs until December 17.

When Greta Thunberg told world leaders at the UN, “People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,” world leaders dismissed her.

It is estimated that 50 million tonnes of electronic waste - or e-waste - was generated globally in 2018, half of which comprised personal tech devices.

Up to three more years of talks remain, before the EU-Mercosur trade deal can be finalised.

Green leader Eamon Ryan has called for a series of rainbow alliances with other parties following his party’s historic election wins.

Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance to BP’s London HQ yesterday, demanding one of the world’s biggest energy companies ends all new oil and gas exploration or goes out of business.

Michael Clifford joins Grace O’Sullivan, the Green Party candidate for Ireland South in the upcoming European elections, as she takes to the campaign trail on Shannonside.

Farming and environmental lobbies in New Zealand have criticised their government’s introduction of a bill that aims to make the nation mostly carbon neutral by 2050.

Environmental activists have boarded an oil rig off the coast of Norway to protest against drilling in the Arctic.

The debate has become especially heated since a Christmas advert by Iceland – which dramatises the link between palm oil, deforestation and the death of orangutans - was banned from being broadcast in the UK.

Social activism refers to a broad range of activities which are beneficial to society or particular interest groups.

From gannets using it instead of seaweed to build nests on the Skelligs right down to it spoiling the most remote Antarctic habitats, plastic has become the environmental scourge of the age.

British chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to start taxing clothes made from polyester and nylon as he seeks to stop harmful plastics filling the world’s oceans.

A court in Norway has said the country's government can hand out oil drilling licences in the Arctic.

Environmental action could terminate a state-backed oil exploration deal in Norway that provides lucrative taxes, writes Mikael Holter.

David Attenborough has described the "heartbreaking" moment an albatross feeds its chick plastic instead of fish in a sequence filmed for Blue Planet II.

Tesco is to stop selling single-use plastic bags in its stores, replacing them with "bags for life" to be offered at double the price.

Samsung plans to recover gold and other metals and components from recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones to reduce waste.

Coca-Cola is doubling the amount of recycled plastic in its British drinks bottles to 50%, the company has announced.

Anti-globalisation activists have rioted for a second night as Hamburg hosts G20 leaders, setting up street barricades, looting supermarkets and attacking police.

Never in the history of humanity has prosperity and waste danced together in such lockstep, writes Terry Prone

After a long flight west to east, it takes 36 or 48 hours for the body clock and brain to catch up, writes Damien Enright. 

An American anti-poaching and conservation group has offered a €4,000 reward for information leading to the identification of two men who threw a dead dolphin out a window during a party at a student apartment complex in Cork.

Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has a radical vision for public transport, energy and housing, a vision he insists is doable and sustainable, writes Juno McEnroe, Political Correspondent.

Top G7 energy officials have failed to agree on language for a joint declaration because of the US administration's review of policies related to climate change and the reduction of greenhouse gases.

Norway has begun its annual six-month whale hunt season with a quota of 999 minke whales - up from 880 animals in 2016.

The Green Party Annual Convention is taking place in Waterford this weekend.

YOU don’t have to be a member of Greenpeace to understand that chemicals thought of as game-changers when introduced — DDT or Thalidomide say — might, in the fullness of time, be viewed differently. The law of unintended consequences applies to chemicals in a very forceful way.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Tech giant Apple has been named as the world's greenest tech company for the third year running in Greenpeace's Clicking Clean report

Engulfed in choking smog, some northern Chinese cities limited the number of cars on roads and temporarily shut down factories today to cut down pollution during a national "red alert".

Lego said it has "no plans" for future free giveaways in The Daily Mail following a campaign calling on advertisers to boycott newspapers that promoted "demonisation and division" during the Brexit debate.

Fiann Ó Nualláin looks at ‘Dare to Be Wild’ and other environment-related films and documentaries. 

EU and US negotiators said yesterday that they still needed to overcome large differences for a transatlantic free trade deal to be sealed this year, and factor in the impending exit from the EU of the UK, one of the US’s biggest export markets.

A group of 65 European public interest groups has written to the president of the European Parliament expressing “serious concern” over negotiations on a new EU-US trade deal.

Reaction to the Chilcot Report was swift and angry, with calls for legal and political action against Tony Blair.

Glastonbury Festival organiser Emily Eavis has called for everyone to “rally together and not lose hope” in the aftermath of the EU referendum.

When voices as diverse as Greenpeace, the Irish Farmers’ Association, and some of Britain’s most eccentric Colonel Blimp champions of Brexit agree, and when Europe’s trades union and France’s Front National’s Marine Le Pen find common cause, it is time to sit up and take notice. 

CANVASSING a voter at the recent general election in Dublin I was told that TTIP was responsible for water charges. When I tried to dissuade the person, in explaining that actually TTIP wasn’t in place and had nothing to do with water charges, I was told “that I wouldn’t believe you anyway”.